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The selectmen received official word from the Massachusetts Department of Transportation that the long-awaited redesign of the Middleboro rotary has been approved and reconstruction may begin in 2018.
MIDDLEBORO – The selectmen received official word from the Massachusetts Department of Transportation that the long-awaited redesign of the Middleboro rotary has been approved and reconstruction may begin in 2018.The MassDOT, in a Jan. 24 letter to Sen. Marc R. Pacheco, said the state will be incorporating the design proposed by the town and that funding has been approved.
The cost of the rotary redesign has been estimated at $38 million."The funding for the advancement of the design has been included in MassDOT's draft 2014-2018 Transportation Capital Investment Plan that was released on January 9, 2014," MassDOT Secretary Richard Davey told Pacheco in the letter. "I hope you are as excited as I am to see the Middleborough Rotary Redesign move forward.
"After advocating for the work and funding for this project for many years. I am happy to see the Department of Transportation provide the support to Southeastern Massachusetts that it deserves," Pacheco said in a Jan. 27 letter to selectmen.
Selectmen on Monday voted unanimously to send letters thanking those involved in the redesign. including the state delegation and Southeastern Regional Planning and Economic Development District.
"I want to take this time to recognize all the people that have been fighting so hard for a design to get approved," said Selectman Ben Quelle.
Selectmen Chairman Stephen McKinnon applauded Town Planner Ruth McCawley Geoffroy.
"Ruth worked on this for 25 to 30 years," he said.
Davey suggested the formation of a "Rotary Design Task Force" that should include representatives from area communities including Middleboro, Taunton, Raynham and Bridgewater, along with state and local elected officials and the local business community.
"As you are aware a project of this significance needs and deserves a high level of civic engagement to ensure that all stakeholders get the best finished product that meets the transportation and economic needs of the region," said Davey.
The first step, according to Davey, is to finalize the feasibility study, "which will identify the town alternative as the preferred alternative," which he expects will be completed by April. Davey expects that project development will begin in June.
The redesign of the rotary, located off Interstate 495 where five roads merge, including Routes 18, 44 and 28, which causes lines of traffic in all directions during rush hour, became stalled after the state and town disagreed on the design plans. The state supported the less expensive single-bridge plan over the rotary, and the town supported the more expensive two-bridge design plan.
The town's two-bridge plan was given a boost when the Southeastern Regional Planning and Economic Development District announced in August that it would provide $11 million to $12 million toward the project, which was the difference in the cost for the two-bridge design.
Town Manager Charles J. Cristello pushed the project forward in September and requested a meeting with the town's legislative delegation, town officials and the MassDOT "to get it permitted, get it designed, and get it out the door."
In the packet he included letters of support from Campanelli and Conroy Development, the owners of the two largest industrial parks in Middleboro.


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Airfare Expert: 'Magical' dates for frugal fliers
If you want to save money on vacation flights this summer, there are several deadlines you should be aware of. These are the dates when airlines quietly decide that the peak summer season is over and they lower their prices.
Different dates apply to different trips, on both domestic flights and jaunts to Europe. Let's break it down.
U.S. flights
When airfares drop depends on the length of a domestic flight. For those flying cross-country or shopping for shorter hops, these are the dates when you can generally expect a shift to lower prices:
•Aug. 29: Transcontinental flights, about 2,500 miles (example, New York-Los Angeles)
•Sept. 3: Mid-haul flights, about 1,250 miles (example, Dallas to Washington, D.C.)
•Anytime: Short-haul flights, about 500 miles (example, Boston to Baltimore)
For many short-hauls on popular routes with lots of service and competition (say, Los Angeles to San Francisco), prices are relatively unaffected by the vagaries of the season.
Flights to Europe
International flight price-drops tend to be more city-specific. Here are the dates when airfares go down on flights from the U.S. to the following destinations:
•Amsterdam – Aug. 26
•Dublin – Aug. 26
•Frankfurt – Aug. 20
•London – Aug. 23
•Paris – Aug. 26
•Rome – Aug. 26
Two things to be aware of for extra savings on flights to Europe:
1.) The nonstop premium on these routes is about 20%, so you can save a significant amount by flying a connecting route.
2.) If you don't include a Saturday night stay, it could cost you as much as 40% more for airfare.


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Scott London, a former auditing partner at global accounting firm KPMG, pleaded guilty to an insider-trading charge Monday, admitting that he revealed confidential information about the firm's clients to a friend.
London, 50, who told reporters after entering the guilty plea, that it was "probably the worst day of my life," was charged with one count of securities fraud in a U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.
London admitted that he passed tips about planned acquisitions and other secret trade information about KPMG's clients such as Herbalife Ltd.( NYSE:HLF) and Skechers USA Inc.( NYSE:SKX) to his friend Bryan Shaw, an Encino jeweler, with the knowledge that such information would be used by Shaw for trading in stocks.
However, London claimed that he did not reveal the information for money, but was helping a friend. He said the money he received from the deal "was not material to my income level."
"I didn't do it for money," London said. "I did it to help out someone whose business was struggling. It was a bad, bad mistake."
The former senior partner at KPMG said he received about $50,000 in cash payments, a $12,000 Rolex Cosmograph Daytona watch, and jewelry from Shaw for the tips.
London, who tipped Shaw off about 14 times, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Jim Bowman, who prosecuted the case, helped the jeweler earn about $2 million in trading profits in the years between 2010 and 2012.
Shaw, who admitted giving London thousands of dollars in return for information about KPMG's clients, pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge in May, and is due to be sentenced on September 16.
The fraud came to light when auditing services giant KPMG, in April, revealed that one of its senior partners had revealed sensitive information about some of its clients to a stock trader. The firm later withdrew from providing auditing services to Herbalife Ltd. and Skechers.
"Imagine what you do, you do it for 30 years, you go to school for it, and in a matter of weeks it's all gone. It's my fault," London, who now faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, said, according a Los Angeles Times report.


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Racetrack casino takes another step forward
Turtecreek Twp. racino planned
The new owners of the Lebanon Raceway took another step forward in building a racino off state Route 63 off in Warren County.
The racetrack casino would be built near Interstate 75 in Turtlecreek Township. Miami Valley Gaming and Racing filed applications with the state to allow 2,500 video lottery terminals at the proposed horse racing track.
"It's going to bring different traffic in," said Stephen Friedberg, of Stephen's Furniture. "The Cincinnati people and Kentucky people will definitely come up."
Friedberg runs his shop out of Traders World Flea Market, and he's already placing bets on better business.
"You got people that are going to go gamble, and they might spend two or three hours there, but they'll also drift into the flea market out of curiosity," he said.
The owner of the nearby Comfort Inn said he'd be glad to open his doors for the estimated 1,000 construction workers needed to build the racino.
"It's a great opportunity for all of us in this area definitely, and it'll obviously bring jobs to the area and a lot of traffic will pass through here," said hotel owner Vijay Patel. "That would be great for us and the community."
The racetrack casino is expected to create 700 permanent jobs, but traffic could also be a concern.
"I think they'll have to do something eventually as you get farther down (Route) 63, but right now I think it's, you know, they just re did this exit," said Bob Age, of Millennium Construction.
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GAO Finds HRSA Failing Taxpayers, Patients, Due to Ineffective Management of Community Health Center Program
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senators Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK), Michael Enzi (R-WY), and Richard Burr (R-NC) sent the following letter to Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Administrator Mary Wakefield, PhD, RN, coinciding with two new reports, requested by the Senators, that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released today. These reports highlight management deficiencies by HRSA in overseeing the Health Center Program. GAO's first report underscores the need for improved oversight by HRSA to ensure grantees comply with the Administration's requirements. In the second report, GAO examines the health center's collaboration and competition with other health providers in the community.
In their letter, the Senators ask HRSA for a management plan to address deficiencies and other concerns outlined in both GAO reports.
"Though millions of underserved and low-income Americans are helped by the medical care and services they receive at health centers, the benefits of the program are more attributable to local health care providers than to HRSA's administration. As the GAO reports detail, HRSA's management of the program is inconsistent, inadequate, and inexcusable. Given the lack of strong internal controls and transparency, we are concerned that HRSA's mismanagement of the program could potentially waste taxpayer dollars or jeopardize patients' access to care," Coburn, Enzi and Burr wrote to Wakefield.
To view text of the letter, click here.
Background on the Community Health Center program:
HHS' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) provides grants to eligible health centers under Section 330 of the Public Health Service Act. In 2010, grants helped fund more than 1,100 health center grantees that provided services at more than 8,100 health care delivery sites and served nearly 19.5 million people. These grants made up over 20 percent of all health center grantees' revenues in 2010. Health centers funded through HRSA's Health Center Program are typically managed by an executive director, a financial officer, and a clinical director, and provide comprehensive primary care services including enabling services, such as translation and transportation, that help facilitate access to health care.
Key findings highlighted in GAO's first report, "Health Center Program: Improved Oversight Needed to Ensure Grantee Compliance with Requirements"
•To oversee grantees, HRSA relies on three tools: annual compliance reviews, site visits, and routine communications.
•HRSA's timeframe for addressing grantee noncompliance can be overly generous.
•HRSA's process for identifying noncompliance is insufficient.
•HRSA's use of site visits to assess compliance is unclear.
•HRSA's project officers do not consistently identify and document grantee noncompliance.
Click here for the full report: GAO-12-546 - Health Center Program: Improved Oversight Needed to Ensure Grantee Compliance with Requirements.
Key findings highlighted in GAO's second report, "Health Center Program: 2011 Grant Award Process Highlighted Need and Special Populations and Merits Evaluation"
•HRSA intends to encourage collaboration in grant-making.
•Health centers and providers in the communities GAO studied generally do not compete for patients.
•Competition is more likely in rural areas, noting greater potential for competition between health centers and hospitals under "certain circumstances".
Click here for the full report: GAO-12-504 - Health Center Program: 2011 Grant Award Process Highlighted Need and Special Populations and Merits Evaluation.
Click here for a one-page summary of both reports.
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Recreational marijuana may as well be legal in the city of Vancouver, given how easy it is for an adult to buy from a fast-growing number of dispensaries openly selling cannabis to customers.
In 2010, there were five dispensaries in the city, according to police. In January last year, police counted a dozen. Most were concentrated in the city's Downtown Eastside or along Kingsway.
Now city hall staff say there are 45 spread across Vancouver, with a handful in trendy neighbourhoods such as Yaletown and Kitsilano. Many have lounges where friends gather to learn about the pain relief brought by different edibles or the coolest new ways to smoke different strains of B.C.'s best bud.
Technically, it's against the law for a person to buy marijuana without a federal certificate issued on the advice of a physician or nurse practitioner.
And there has never been a federal licensing system for dispensaries.
But, responding to complaints by patients about access to marijuana, dispensaries have formed their system of issuing membership cards based on easy-to-get documentation from any medical professional.
Some of the dozens of dispensaries in the city skirt the law by teaming up with health professionals other than doctors and nurse practitioners, like naturopaths and in one case a psychologist, who issue certificates that dispensaries then rely on to let patients become members. The dispensaries then willingly sell cannabis products to these members.
Presented with evidence from a Sun investigation, Kerry Jang, Vision Vancouver's designated city councillor responsible for commenting on marijuana dispensaries vowed the city will crack down on those dispensaries rubber-stamping memberships on site to recreational users.
Over several days this month, a Sun reporter visited five separate dispensaries to see how easy it would be to get a certificate to join dispensaries and buy "edibles" (cookies, brownies, popcorn, chocolate, and smoothies and other drinks infused with cannabis).
He found the standard for obtaining a medical marijuana letter from a naturopath is extremely low. For fees ranging between $25 and $90, a registered naturopath will spend 10 to 30 minutes talking to a patient. A claim of insomnia is enough to procure a certificate, so long as the patient "has reported that his/her symptoms are helped by cannabis."
The naturopaths who work with the dispensaries know they are technically in a legal grey area, so when they issue a note they also make patients sign a release form agreeing not to "make any claim or complaint or commence any proceedings against" them for applying to use marijuana through this grey market.
"I sign confirmations, as a naturopathic doctor I cannot prescribe cannabis," one naturopath explained. "I can prescribe a sleeping pill for you, but not a plant."
At all five dispensaries The Sun visited, becoming a member took a maximum of 40 minutes.
Stricter operations like the B.C. Compassion Club Society dissuade recreational tokers from joining by making them wait about two weeks for a 90-minute orientation session that explores their motives for seeking cannabis and tailors a consumption regime that fits those reasons.
The reporter got a free membership to two of the five dispensaries through an in-house registered naturopath who conducted a short interview and then wrote a medical note on the premises — for $60.
After a 30-minute consultation that cost $25, a registered psychologist at a third dispensary signed a form that immediately led to a free membership. Psychologists aren't allowed to prescribe medications, according to the Canadian Mental Health Association, but this was just a note stating that the patient had said he benefited from marijuana use.
The two in-house naturopaths and one psychologist were eager to help the reporter get a note quickly to become a member. But each also gave earnest advice on how natural remedies could help him best battle a lingering chest cold and how changing his lifestyle may help him get more sleep.
At another dispensary that's part of a large chain, the reporter was told he could purchase up to a gram of edible or combustible cannabis each day without a card. To buy more, he was referred to another of the chain's locations in Kitsilano where he was told an in-house naturopath would do a quick consultation to green-light a membership.
But the manager at that location said that his naturopath had quit some time ago and that he would write the reporter a temporary membership card only good for his store.
Most of the roughly 16 dispensaries contacted by The Sun didn't have a naturopath on site and several referred prospective members to the same downtown Vancouver "wellness centre."
At that centre, a registered naturopath charged $90 for a 20-minute consultation that produced a note, which could be taken to any dispensary to receive a new membership.
Many dispensaries recognize the memberships of their competitors and will sell to anyone with a card. However, an attendant at one Chinatown dispensary said they wouldn't honour memberships from the chain where the manager issued a Sun reporter a temporary card, because it has a reputation in the community for freely giving out memberships.
The head of B.C.'s College of Naturopathic Physicians said that the regulatory body hasn't received a single complaint "concerning a naturopathic doctor's recommendation or prescription of marijuana," but that it would investigate further if it received such a tip.
"The college has made B.C.'s naturopathic doctors aware that they may face criminal or professional disciplinary proceedings if they recommend or prescribe marijuana to patients," registrar and CEO Howard Greenstein said in an emailed statement. "The college primarily addresses issues of professional misconduct based upon complaints or information received from members of the public."
Andrea Kowaz, registrar of the College of Psychologists of B.C., the profession's regulatory body, said registered psychologists are not authorized to provide a "medical document" under the federal pot regulations.
She said that while it is not the college's role to enforce the regulations, the college would investigate a complaint from the public alleging a named psychologist provided a medical document contrary to federal laws governing the sale of marijuana for medical purposes.
Like the two medical colleges, police say they only investigate a dispensary after they have received complaints because there are much higher-priority crimes to solve and harder drugs to monitor in Vancouver. Anyone selling marijuana outside the federally regulated medicinal system is doing so illegally, but that's up to Health Canada to regulate, Vancouver police Sgt. Randy Fincham said.
He added that the VPD seldom receives complaints about dispensaries and in the past year has raided just two locations. The co-owner of one of them — Weeds Glass and Gifts on Kingsway — told The Georgia Straight that he was raided last month because he had broken one of the dispensary community's "unwritten rules" of selling customers their own seedlings to grow.
Even so, the store was reopened within hours of the VPD confiscating the plants, the owner told The Straight.
Police are skeptical that all the dispensaries are selling marijuana only to people with health problems.
"There's no way that you'd see these sprout up from very few to over 30 in the city of Vancouver in a fairly short time span because they want to look after people's health," Fincham said. "They're definitely doing this for profit."
City bylaw staff are monitoring these "pop-up" dispensaries that have opened in the past year to make sure they aren't near schools or are selling or marketing to minors, according to Jang.
The City of Vancouver has tolerated the grey-market dispensaries, allowing them to operate without a business licences as long as they adhere to zoning and land-use bylaws, fire regulations and building codes.
City and police officials have justified the leniency on grounds that the dispensaries were selling only to patients with Health Canada permits.
Jang said it was unacceptable that two dispensaries sold cannabis to The Sun without even a medical note and that three other dispensaries gave The Sun a rubber-stamped membership after meeting an in-house naturopath or psychologist.
"That's exactly what we don't agree with — we'll go after those ones when we know who they are," Jang said, adding that this information would be forwarded to the police to investigate.
Still, he said it is unreasonable to shut down all the dispensaries in the city because the current federally-regulated system — in which 13 producers mail dried cannabis to licensed consumers — can't supply all the patients in need.
"Everybody just buys their very expensive pot by mail? So what happens? They go to the street and we get a booming underground economy and nobody's gained one thing," Jang said. "In fact, it's probably worse because then we're going to have to do enforcement. This is the conundrum as a city we see."
Compassion club activists have long argued that compassion clubs and dispensaries service the patients' constitutional right to medicine.
And it's likely that dispensaries will continue operating until a judge rules on whether the new federal mail-only system is unconstitutional. Opponents argue it makes medicinal marijuana too expensive and inaccessible to licensed consumers.
Dan Reist, a researcher with the University of Victoria's Centre for Addictions Research of B.C., said most of the blame for dispensaries operating in a "de facto Wild West" lies squarely with the federal Conservative government, which has tried to "sweep it under the carpet."
"(In) the current vacuum … marijuana is technically illegal, yet no one wants to really take action to enforce laws that largely have been discredited and nobody supports," Diest said. "Now public pressure has reached the point where there's not a lot they can do other than moving rather quickly to a regulated (decriminalized) market here.
"They have to regulate the entire market because currently the medicinal market is standing in, in a lot of cases, as a proxy to open up access to recreational use."
The federal government should apply lessons learned through decades of alcohol and tobacco regulation to shape a new marijuana market "from the ground up," Diest said.
Though the public may not complain about Vancouver's increasingly-easier access to pot, it leads to more overall consumption, which he said "usually means easier access for the younger population."
That is troubling given the potential harms the drug could have on young people, whom are at risk for having troubles regulating their pot use later in life when they use it heavily early on, according to Diest.
"It's like if you go back 50 years to tobacco, and you realize how easy it was for kids to get tobacco," Reist said. "Now we recognize 'boy, that was a mistake we shouldn't have done that.'"
Cigarettes aren't the same as joints, but Diest said anybody advocating for more access to pot must "come into it with eyes wide open."
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Getting to pot: Our reporter's experience with a sampling of local dispensaries
Vancouver Pain Management Society
Commercial Drive and East 5th Avenue
After a 45 minute wait, I get my consultation with the in-house psychologist, Trula D. O'Haire, who was running late with other patients.
Smoke from a member in the booth behind envelops our meeting as the registered psychologist begins to ask about my insomnia symptoms. She chatted with me for about half an hour about a wide range of topics including:
her martial artist ex-husband, the wonders of arnica Montana gel for aches and pains, Tuesday hula hoop classes at the dispensary, how impossible it is to eat just half a pot cookie and how the owners of the dispensary are truly committed to great marijuana. All this was peppered with maybe five or six short questions about my inability to sleep.
I gave her my name, birthdate, address and phone number, paid $25 and then went and got my dispensary card and bought some cookies. Bonus: I also got a free medicinal gel cap as a new member's gift.
Weeds Glass and Gifts
Burrard and Davie streets
A cheery guy in his 20s helps me peruse the large, bright dispensary for various strains and edibles. I settle on a $5 candy chocolate wrapped in tinfoil after telling him the $30 tincture bottle of concentrated "Phoenix Tears" may be too intense for a beginner like myself.
With ID, but no dispensary card, he initially says he can't sell me anything. Then he says his store can sell a small edible or a gram or less of dried cannabis for those who want "medicine" but haven't seen a proper doctor yet. He says that they will sell someone without a card up to a gram a day. He tells me if I want to see a naturopath and get certified today then I can cross Burrard Bridge to their sister location in Kitsilano.
Weeds Glass and Gifts
Burrard and West 2nd Avenue
The manager is apoplectic upon hearing their sister location has referred another client to his store in order to get a note from an in-house naturopath. He excuses himself to phone the West End location and berates them for again sending him customers without proper membership cards or naturopath's notes.
Then calms down and says that his in-house naturopaths stopped working for him some weeks ago and may have branched out to do lucrative marijuana consultations on their own.
He begrudgingly gives me a temporary membership card only good for today and valid at his location.
As he rings me in for a $10 "Double Dose" peanut butter pot cookie, he chats about how naturopaths like the ones that ran out on him can make hundreds of dollars a day certifying people for $60 dispensary cards. He says the dispensaries are all popping up to cash in before an upcoming court ruling may shift the legal ground of the new federal system. However, dispensaries like his may only have six months of business left if a new less sympathetic mayor gets elected in Vancouver.
Outside in the lane beside the dispensary, an unmarked police car is parked as its officers visit the neighbouring Starbuck's that is a popular hangout for officers in the district.
Buddha Barn
West Fourth Avenue and Yew Street
The bright white walls and wood grain bar make this second-floor dispensary resemble what I imagine a high-end salon must look like. A managerial-looking woman in a white pharmacist's outfit hands me my forms and asks me to wait on one of the comfortable designer chairs, beside potted palms and a coffee table with the latest celebrity gossip rags. A Pomeranian named Remy, shaved to look like a miniature lion, wanders the salon as I fill out the paperwork.
A mild-mannered naturopath in his 30s, Jordan Atkinson, invites me up to an elevated bar in front of the large main window with its shades pulled down.
On a blank piece of paper he scribbles down notes as I tell him about my problems sleeping. He recommends using a journal to record my sleep experiences each night as well as taking calcium magnesium and instituting a one-hour moratorium on any sort of screen time before sleeping.
He stresses that marijuana is illegal and that he is not giving me a prescription. He pulls out a pre-signed note from a nearby stack, fills in my name and personal details then hands it to me.
We get up and he briskly walks to the front counter and discretely asks the manager to pay him his $60 fee for each of the four patients he has seen that day. She retrieves the cash from the till and hands it to him in a backroom before he takes off.
As I look at the edibles and six different strains of combustible pot on offer, a middle-aged woman asks for potent Jolly Rancher candies to help her 67-year-old mom deal with Stage 4 colon cancer. Her mom found hash oil was too mellow so they are trying candies, which she heard were very effective from a friend's mother with MS.
They been in operation for four months and I am their 739th member.
Eden Medicinal Society
East Hastings Street and Princess Avenue
Two hipsters at the front counter welcome me into the bare-bones waiting room as they gossip idly. A 20-something member exits the members-only area and grabs the expensive road bike that he was too scared to leave outside.
A naturopath, Julia Christensen, enters the waiting room and brings me into a windowless backroom where she sits with her laptop at a small desk in front of an empty whiteboard.
She quizzes me on my lifestyle and diet and says self-medicating with marijuana is not a long-term solution for my insomnia. In the meantime, she says she recommends that on nights I don't use cannabis I try a chewable all-natural tablet with melatonin called Tranquil Sleep.
She signs my note and leads me back to the front desk where one of the two young women processes my laminated membership card, the only one I've received so far with a photo. I'm then allowed into an apothecary-like room with high ceilings and several long glass display cases containing dozens of strains and edibles. A dishevelled young man in a white graphic T-shirt counsels me on the best edibles. He says the cookies I'm thinking of buying are very potent, as evidenced by the crazy bus ride he recently took out to the Fraser Valley to watch a motorcycle show. He doesn't remember much of the show, but he definitely got very high.
As a new member my first purchase — a tiny bag of four root beer candies — is free.
Naturopath at Sinclair Wellness Centre
757 West Hastings St.
Brochures advertising the benefits of acupuncture, regular massage therapy as well as using different strains of cannabis are stocked beside a large fish tank in the classy waiting room of the downtown "wellness centre." A thirtysomething naturopath with tattooed forearms, Aaron Van Gaver, greets me with a warm smile.
He can tell right away that I'm stuffed up from a serious head cold and launches into a sermon on the benefits of using a neti pot. Together with lots of water, vitamin C, eliminating dairy and sugary fruits like bananas and oranges, flushing my sinuses with the ancient Ayurvedic technique should get rid of my symptoms soon. As for my problem getting a good night sleep, he takes my word that eating a pot candy a few weeks ago helped me get my best rest in months.
During a friendly, free-flowing conversation he takes my blood pressure and asked about my history of cannabis use. He writes up a confirmation note stating that I have a working diagnosis of insomnia, that I have reported cannabis helps my symptoms and that I should have this re-evaluated in six months.
He declined to give me a $30 discount on his $90 fee that a dispensary employee who referred me here said I might be able to finagle.
He said he isn't an employee of the dispensaries and that those in-house naturopaths are operating illegally and giving the profession a bad name.
"The naturopathic doctors that are in there are putting themselves at risk. Plus, I mean, wouldn't you want to see a doctor in a doctor's office?"
"I used to work in the dispensaries and people would get confused that I was the dispensary's doctor and it got really sketchy for me because I don't want to be associated with a dispensary," he said. "I'm myself, I sign confirmations, as a naturopathic doctor I cannot prescribe cannabis. I can prescribe a sleeping pill for you but not a plant."
On the way out of the 20-minute consultation he was courteous, but clearly interested in processing my transaction as fast as possible.


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Here is what a young Food Forest can look like in a part of your urban yard!
Linda's List here is intended for a Mediterranean climate like coastal Southern California has, one of only 5 in the world. The list in your area may be different. Check out your local gardeners' successes, check with your local nursery. This list is not tree specific yet. We're working on that!
More than a list of plants, Linda's List gives tips for good growing, eating, and usage!
Once our fruit trees are planted in their water-saving basins in a budding Mediterranean food forest, it's now time to think about what else to plant in these usually moist wells and swales. Or up the trees? Or nearby? We need these companion plants to increase our food and medicine yield, and also to enrich the soil, provide habitat, pull up minerals and other nutrients from deep in the earth, draw nitrogen from the air and bring it into the soil, attract beneficial insects to control pests, create shade for delicate roots — and to provide beauty, a critical psychological and spiritual yield in every garden.
Thanks to the members of the Permaculture Guild of Santa Barbara and the Santa Barbara Organic Garden Club for their ideas and input. Additions and corrections are welcome. Please email firstname.lastname@example.com. Especially welcome would be input on what plants do best under specific fruit trees – so far I don't have much information on that.
Blueberry. To grow well here, they need acid soil, so a container is often the best solution, since Santa Barbara soil and water tend to be alkaline. One gardener we know waters hers with a very dilute solution of white vinegar, plus puts pine needles, coffee grounds around the plant. Best in Mediterranean climates are the low-chill varieties like 'Misty,"O'Neal,' 'Sharpblue'
Cane berries. Upright cane berries are fun to pop in here and there as understory plants and they take some shade. But we found out the hard way that you probably don't want to put in sprawling, thorny berries (especially blackberry) that sucker underground – they pop up all over the yard and are hard to eradicate. When we buy new berries we limit ourselves to thornless varieties and our current favorites are 'Navajo' and 'Apache,' although the thorny varieties that still linger in our garden – and will probably be there for hundreds of years as they're ineradicable – taste best. So we live with them and enjoy the berries.
Elderberry. Shrub. There is a California native variety. Produces edible fragrant white flowers (used to make elderberry syrup and wine) and edible small blue berries that the birds love. Ripe berries are safe to eat but leaves, twigs, branches, seeds and roots are toxic. Has medicinal uses. We use our elderberry as a sacrificial plant attracting birds away from other fruit trees.
Lemonade Berry (native). Rhus integrifolia. Can also control erosion.
Placement of these may take special care, as you don't want to plant them too close to delicate tree roots.
Edible canna. Canna edulis –Achira. Flowers are smaller than most cannas and the root is edible, can be chopped and sautéed like potato.
Potato and sweet potato
EDIBLE FLOWERS (note: most fruit trees, veggies and herbs also have edible flowers. Always triple check the safety of any flower before eating!
Daylilies. Hemerocallis species. Buds are used in Chinese stir fry, Petals in salad.
Nasturtium (flowers, young leaves and buds that may be pickled like capers) Let the plants die back in place. They will reseed and form a straw mulch.
Roses (yield petals for salads, sandwiches, syrups, desserts; rose hips for tea, syrups, jam)
Scarlet runner bean
Scented geranium
HERBS (most have edible flowers in addition to other uses)
Chili peppers, including tree chili
Italian parsley
Lemon balm
Lemon verbena. A drought tolerant shrub with delicious leaves for tea.
Mint. Some fear its vigorous, spreading roots, but we welcome it into drier areas as ground cover, autumn bee food and a source of fresh leaves for cooking and tea.
Mustard (young leaves can be stir fried, flowers are edible, plus seeds for making mustard)
Pineapple sage (leaves and flowers make delicious herbal tea)
SHRUBS/Understory trees
Guava. Psidium Tropical shrubs native to Mexico, Central and South America that yield white, yellow or pink fruit. Not to be confused with Pineapple Guava (Feijoa) Psidium guajava (apple guava) is one tasty variety. Also try lemon guava and strawberry guava.
VEGGIES (there's no way to name them all – it's fun to experiment to see what likes the soil under and around your fruit trees. Our favorites are those that overwinter and/or reseed themselves)
Artichokes. Plant away from tree roots, in baskets as the gophers love them.
Brassicas like broccoli, kale, collard greens.
Dandelions. Leaves are great in salads and so good for us. Small birds like the seed heads.
Fava beans and other beans.
New Zealand spinach.
We often forget about vertical space in the garden, but it's nice to increase your yield by growing edible vines up fruit trees, on walls and over arbors, fences and hedges.
Grapes. Note: the Permaculture Guild of Santa Barbara has a separate list of recommended table and wine grapes for our area. Contact email@example.com for details
Passion Fruit. A garden member says "mine is simply rampant, productive and trouble-free; gets little to no supplemental water." The juice can be used to make a spectacular salad dressing (served at Los Arroyos on Coast Village Road in their tropical salad).
Bamboo. Use clumping instead of running kinds to avoid it taking over your garden. Bamboo shoots are a delicacy in Asia.
Pepino melon.
Sacrificial plants. In permaculture designs we often plant trees, shrubs and other plants that are nitrogen-accumulators, "nurse" plants or fruit-providers for animals that might otherwise eat our crops. When they have performed their function, we "chop and drop" them around our fruit trees as a nutritious mulch.
Yucca. We've read that yucca yields edible fruit and flower buds. Anyone have more info on this?
Ceanothus. Shrubs and ground covers that fix nitrogen in the soil.
Salvia, ornamental. These are treasures in the Mediterranean forest garden.
Tagetes lemmonii. Golden color is lovely in fall.
Easy-to-grow succulents can provide temporary ground cover for delicate roots. They can act as a living mulch until other plants take over that function. This crop is often free, as gardeners who have ground-cover sedums always have too many and are glad to share.
Pelargoniums and lantana are other easy, colorful ground cover that can be removed as needed.
Per PatternLiteracy.com, Toby Hemenway's home site, Gaia's Garden has been the best-selling permaculture book in the world for the last 7 years. The enlarged, updated 2nd edition is the winner of the 2011 Nautilus Gold Medal Award.
The first edition of Gaia's Garden sparked the imagination of America's home gardeners, introducing permaculture's central message: Working with nature, not against her, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens. This extensively revised and expanded second edition broadens the reach and depth of the permaculture approach for urban and suburban growers.
Treat yourself and your land to this incredibly efficient way of gardening. Wisely use ALL the space available to you in a good way. Nature is the Master Gardener – follow her lead.


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Bad weather claims the lives of two local women
While the snow and ice that arrived yesterday led to a number of accidents in the area, including this one on Rio Road, on Interstate 81 near Winchester the bad weather unfortunately claimed the lives of two local women, the Daily Progress reports.
Thomasina Bryant, 36, of Charlottesville, was driving her Toyota SUV near Winchester yesterday when she lost control of the car, went across the median, and hit an oncoming car. Odessa Smith, 47, of Barboursville, who was a passenger in the car with Bryant, was pronounced dead at the scene, while Bryant died later at a Winchester hospital. There were no reports on the status of others involved in the crash.
According to City spokesman Ric Barrick, Bryant had been an employee for 13 years in the City Treasurer's Office, and had been on a trip with her son to look at colleges.


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What a year it has been. I can honestly say we are excited 2013 will be coming to a close real shortly. To sum up the year in a phrase it would be "growing pains."
At the end of Jan. I decided to re-open my Etsy shop {www.fancythatloved.etsy.com} & boy, did God bless that! What I had thought was going to be some extra "fun" money turned into a full time business! It was quite challenging the first few months trying to get the feel of how it fits in my day, post office runs, packaging orders, relisting items, updating inventory, and still making being a momma my full time job. We've made adjustments & I can honestly say it has been the biggest blessing for me.
Ryan's business this year grew by 25% as well this year as well. So we experienced quite another growing pain with that! May through September you'd often find the four of us labeling packages, hitting up the post office then going out to get comparable pictures for Ryan's appraisals. Tucker learned quickly to ask "is this a long ride, or a short ride today?"
Growing by 1: At the end of May we found out we were expecting baby #3, this was a real surprise but we are very thankful. Shortly after finding out I got hit with morning sickness really bad for 13 weeks (just like the other two boys) I quickly learned saltines were my best friend! Along with this pregnancy I have gestational diabetes, but thankfully am able to control it with diet and exercise.
Tucker started preschool this year, which as been so fun to see him learn. He LOVES preschool & his teacher, Mrs. Boswell. He has two "best friends" and plays ninja turtles everyday at recess, his favorite part of the day.
Cy is still our little tornado. He will be 2 in a week and he still amazes us how quickly he can destroy a room! The man is always on a mission. We're anxious to see how he adjust to a new little one real shortly.
In mid August we bought a new-to-us speed boat! This has always been a little dream for Ryan & we were able to take it out for a spin 3 times before the weather got too cold. We're really looking forward to making many memories on it in the years to come.
It has been a good year, just alot of adjustments! In 2014 we are looking forward to:
-a new little one joining the family!
-boating alot more
-ryan starting an etsy business
-and NOT moving! :-)
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LOCATION: Geisinger Medical Center Hospital
DEPARTMENT: Environmental Services
WORK SCHEDULE: Evenings/Nights
WORK TYPE: Part Time
Performs a variety of healthcare environmental services (EVS) duties to enhance the healthcare environment by maintaining the location assigned. Follows special healthcare cleaning and trash handling techniques as required ensuring a professional and appropriate service standard while performing the job. Follows system wide standards as well as department specific service standards.
Responsible for ensuring the very best patient/family/ customer experience by optimizing all customer interactions. Fosters a positive work environment through mutual support and cooperation and adheres to unit specific service standards. Performs duties to support the goals and objectives of Geisinger in its efforts to provide quality patient care and patient satisfaction.
TEAM PLAYER - Must be able to work and communicate effectively in a team environment.
COMMUNICATION SKILLS - Demonstrates oral, written, and electronic communication skills.
INFECTION CONTROL - Utilizes knowledge of patient safety and error prevention to impede the spread of infection and disease.
HEALTHCARE REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT - Knowledge and understanding of legislation and regulatory bodies affecting healthcare practices.
HOUSEKEEPING - Knowledge of processes for providing a clean and bacterially safe environment for patients and facility staff.
HOUSEKEEPING - Knowledge of cleaning and sanitation methods for maintaining linens for hospital facility.
High school diploma or GED preferred.
Previous experience in environmental services in a health care setting preferred.
Requires ability to stand, walk, bend, lift up to 50 lbs., carry and push carts from 100 lbs. to 500 lbs. when performing duties. Works under a variety of temperature conditions. May involve transporting items outside of buildings in all weather conditions.
Possesses the ability to stand for long periods as well as to walk long distances to perform cleaning and disinfecting tasks of both high and low items/areas.
Requires ability to perform job duties correctly with in established System EVS standards to facilitate patient throughput.
Requires ability to tolerate the associated visual, auditory and scents associated with providing all kinds of medical and surgical care.
Work is typically performed within a office, clinical or classroom environment; frequently performs duties around patients, their families and clinical care providers as well as non-clinical staff
The specific statements shown in each section of this description are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements considered necessary to successfully perform the job.
OUR PURPOSE & VALUES: Everything we do is about caring for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities. KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves. EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence. LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow. INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation.
GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER: (GMC), located Danville, Pa., the largest tertiary/quaternary care teaching hospital in the region, is licensed for 475 beds, including 89 pediatric beds in the Janet Weis Children's Hospital. GMC, a Magnet Hospital, maintains the region's only Level 1 Regional Resource Trauma Center with additional qualifications in pediatrics. GMC offers an array of highly specialized medical and surgical services, including neurosciences, cardiovascular services, transplantation, women's health (in the Women's Pavilion), oncology and orthopaedics. The Hospital for Advanced Medicine serves as an integrated center for the most critical patients. Outpatient services are available on and off campus.
About Geisinger
One of the nation's most innovative health services organizations, Geisinger serves more than 1.5 million patients in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The system includes 13 hospital campuses, a nearly 600,000-member health plan, two research centers and the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. A physician-led organization, with approximately 32,000 employees and more than 1,800 employed physicians, Geisinger leverages an estimated $12.7 billion positive annual impact on the Pennsylvania and New Jersey economies. Repeatedly recognized nationally for integration, quality and service, Geisinger has a long-standing commitment to patient care, medical education, research and community service. For more information, visit geisinger.org or connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.
** Does not qualify for J-1 waiver. We are an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer Women and Minorities are Encouraged to Apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability or their protected veteran status.
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Need inspiration for a pop culture-inspired Halloween costume? We're showing you the simple steps it takes to achieve looks like Fifty Shades of Grey's Anastasia Steele, Game of Thrones' Daenerys Targaryen, pageant queen Honey Boo Boo Child, modern Catwoman Selina Kyle, and New Girl's Jess. The Buzz's Becky and Shannon have your complete Halloween how-to, so watch our editors transform into these popular characters now!


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School board tables vote on new dress code
Possible changes angered Chambersburg parents
The Chambersburg School Board has tabled a vote on whether to adopt a controversial new dress code.
The dress code would prohibit students from wearing T-shirts, hoodies, brand name logos or open-toe shoes.
Instead, students would be required to wear solid color, collared shirts. If girls wanted to wear a dress, they would be limited to certain colors.
The possible changes angered some parents, who spoke at a Wednesday night meeting.
"The other day, I went through my daughter's clothes and I will have to get rid of all of them," parent Karen Herman said.
"I'll tell you one thing, soft skills are a major issue in this economy, this town and this county, and one of the biggest soft skills we overlook is the way people dress," parent Jack Sharp said.
This is an issue News 8 learned about at its Chambersburg town meeting earlier this month.


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With major U.S. stock indexes near all-time highs, have stocks become too expensive?
The S&P 500 (SPY) crossed above a new high of 1,700 on Aug. 1 and is ahead by almost 20% since the start of 2013. Likewise, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DIA) is ahead by 20% and trades near its all-time high of 15,650. And as stock prices have edged higher, so have valuations.
The forward 12-month P/E ratio for the S&P 500 has increased to 14.4 from 12.7 at the end of last year, according to FactSet. For historical perspective, it's worth noting S&P's current P/E ratio is only slightly above the 10-year average (14.1).
The reason the forward 12-month P/E ratio is not higher is that analysts are expecting record-level EPS over the next four quarters (Q3'13–Q2'14) for the S&P 500, reports FactSet.
Another measure of stock valuations is the Shiller PE Ratio, also known as the Cyclically Adjusted PE Ratio (CAPE Ratio). This particular gauge is the price earnings ratio based on average inflation-adjusted earnings from the previous 10 years and is less prone to dramatic fluctuations in any one year.
The S&P 500's current Shiller PE ratio is 24.85, which is above its historical median of 15.88 but still shy of its all-time peak of 44.20 in December 1999.
Put another way, the S&P 500 at current levels trades somewhere between cheap and expensive, but closer to cheap.


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This unique house comes with some breathtaking views.
Photo: MLS
No, this isn't Fred Flintstone's residence. The late Dick Clark had this stone stunner constructed for his wife and now the home is back on the market in Malibu for just under $3 million.
Built into the surrounding hills in order to avoid disrupting the natural beauty of the area, the mountainside abode is definitely a unique property. The home has one bedroom, two bathrooms, and 2,500 square feet with plenty of custom detailing thanks to the unusual design.
Just like many other homes in the Malibu hills, the standout feature is the view, but this panorama is particularly breathtaking since the home was built for the amazing vistas. Take a look at the slideshow above for pictures of the home as well as the picturesque landscape.


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Breathtaking mountain scenery, picturesque lakes and lush green forests are the hallmarks of Berchtesgaden National Park, one of the oldest conservation areas in the Alps.
Situated in southern Bavaria, the park is a true paradise for active holidaymakers and those with a passion for life.
Activities at high altitude
With 260 kilometres of footpaths and steep mountain trails on offer, boredom doesn't stand a chance. After a walk, you might like to cool off in Lake Königssee or order a hearty lunch at a traditional mountain lodge. If you can't get enough of the rustic charm of the mountain lodges, you can book a hiking tour lasting several days.
From mountain hares to alpine flowers
In Berchtesgaden National Park, it's not unheard of to see an ibex or a marmot, spot a rare golden eagle circling the skies or discover a dragon's mouth flower growing at the edge of the trail. The variety of flora and fauna in the region is nothing short of remarkable.
Extreme sports and adventure
Paragliders and hang-gliders soar through the air as free as a bird. Mountain climbers enjoy the formidable challenge of Mount Watzmann, which rises to 2,713 metres. In winter, skiers and snowboarders glide across the snowy landscape. Throughout the year, the Jenner cable car takes visitors to the edge of the national park and to an altitude of 1,800 metres.
Breathtaking gorges and rocky ravines
If you don't want to get up quite so high, you can still enjoy the scenery from deep in the dramatic ravines, which have been carved out by mountain rivers. Thanks to its waterfalls, the Wimbachklamm is considered one of the most beautiful gorges in the Bavarian Alps.
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Less Downtime with In-House Drill Sharpening
An important goal for any shop should be improving productivity through faster turnaround and reduced machine downtime. Being able to process work more quickly, accurately and cost effectively provides a natural advantage over the competition.
One step toward higher productivity can be in addressing the long wait times often associated with outsourced drill sharpening. With equipment that can provide high accuracy and consistent results, bringing this operation in-house can save time and money.
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Darex LLC produces industrial drill sharpeners that are suitable for in-house applications, along with a range of other commercial and consumer sharpening products. Its CNC-XPS-16 has recently been upgraded with a low-power-usage LED backlit display and electronics with refined grind motion control to meet demanding sharpening requirements.
The unit sharpens drills accurately in less than a minute. The super-abrasive, electroplated, sharpening wheels can sharpen more than 8,000 drills and are replaceable. The enclosed design and dust extraction system ensure grinding dust and grit are contained. The machine sharpens two-fluted split-point drills, high speed steel, cobalt, carbide and coated drills from 2 inches to 10 inches long. It can automatically hone carbide drill cutting edges as part of the sharpening process and can turn regular drills into self-centering, fast-cutting, high performance drills.
The machine can sharpen both standard conic and four-facet points, as well as produce standard and high performance radius split points. It can sharpen drills 1/8 inch to
5/8 inch in diameter (3 mm to 16 mm) and can create angles from 90 degrees to 150 degrees.
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The XPS 16 is designed for ease of use. The operator simply selects the drill point angle and pushes "cycle start" to automatically size, align, sharpen, split, and if desired, hone the drill. The sharpener detects the end of the drill and determines the drill diameter. In one continuous step prior to sharpening, using fiber optics, the web thickness is measured, and the cutting edge of the drill is located for auto alignment.
Once the drill is secured in the chuck, the programming is done via the LCD touchscreen. The cycle start/cycle stop and the emergency stop buttons are located next to the LCD screen. From the main setup screen, the operator has the ability to adjust a number of variables, including honing, point angle, relief angle and point split options. As many as 100 custom profiles can be saved in the system through the file management icon.
The latest model includes new electronics with refined grind motion control. With the older model, the motion to remove material was done in paused, step increments. Now, with the refined motion control, the conic acceleration and deceleration improves surface finish and cycle times.
Changes have been made that will help improve wheel life. Previously, the drill bit diameter determined the grind position on the wheel. In cases when sharpening only common size drill bits, only a small portion of the wheel was consumed. Now, the drill's sharpening position on the wheel is random, utilizing the entire face of the grinding wheel.
The unit is shipped with two wheels. The CBN wheel is specific for high speed steel and cobalt, and the diamond wheel is specific for carbide. Additional wheel options are available with varying grit sizes to meet certain surface finish requirements.
No Time to Wait
When a shop is busy getting parts out the door, it is hard to justify a long wait for drills to return from independent sharpening services. The process can sometimes take as long as 6 weeks. Sharpening drills in-house with a system such as the XPS-16 is not only more expedient, but also significantly reduces perishable tooling costs.
By providing consistent sharpening from one drill to the next, the machine contributes to a shop's efforts toward efficient operations with repeatable results.
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Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) Resources
BSE Information and Resources from FSIS
- Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and Specified Risk Material (SRM) Guidance Materials and Resources
Compliance guidance for producers and businesses.
- BSE Rules Being Strictly Enforced (Aug 12, 2005)
A review of inspection data by FSIS shows strong enforcement of regulations to further enhance safeguards against BSE.
- Using Dentition to Age Cattle - An illustrated tutorial
Despite individual differences, when the age of an animal is not known, examination of the teeth serves as the best and most practical method of age determination.
Questions and Answers
- askFSIS - use keyword "BSE"
- Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (Mar 2005)
- FSIS Further Strengthens Protections Against Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) (Mar 2005)
- FSIS Technical Service Center Common BSE Questions and Answers (Mar 2004)
Risk Assessments
Includes the 2005 update to the Harvard BSE Risk Assessment.
FSIS Notices, Directives, etc.
To find pertinent information, you may also go directly to either the Notices index or Directives index. For more information about BSE and Specified Risk Materials (SRM), refer to our guidance and resources for producers and businesses.
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U.S. Department of Agriculture
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APHIS is the lead USDA agency on animal health issues.
USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS)
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Sources of information on the effects of BSE on trade.
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The latest news and highlights, plus articles from CDC journals.
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World Health Organization (WHO)
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Facts on BSE and other transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) from WHO, the United Nations specialized agency for health.
BSE News Release (Archives) - Go to www.usda.gov for complete listing.
- USDA BSE Information Center (Apr 24, 2012)
- Statement by USDA Chief Veterinary Officer John Clifford Regarding a Detection of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in the United States (Apr 24, 2012) | Video
- Vilsack Announces Final Rule for Handling of Non-Ambulatory Cattle (Mar 14, 2009)
- USDA Announces Proposed Rule for Requirements of the Disposition of Downer Cattle (Aug 27, 2008)
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Modern technology has radically changed the way we interact socially. Go stand in a line, and I guarantee at least a few people will have whipped out their smartphones and are happily ignoring the world around them. We don't call anymore; we text as if that were the same as a discussion. As author, psychologist, and MIT professor Sherry Turkle recently noted in a New York Times editorial this past April, "we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection." Henry Alex Rubin's Disconnect ignores this contemporary issue, and sacrifices worthwhile social commentary for mere cautionary tales. Disconnect has all the dramatic weight of a driver's education video, but then pads its thin plots with three loosely-connected narratives, two of which feature character actions so ludicrous that the movie becomes almost completely disconnected from reality.
Disconnect is three stories, with each plot a dire warning about this new-fangled Internet technology. One story is about a local TV reporter (Andrea Riseborough) and her relationship with a young man (Max Thieriot) who does sex-cam shows. Another follows a married couple (Alexander Skarsgard and Paula Patton) who have their identity stolen, and are plunged further into debt. The third tale revolves around two high school kids (Colin Ford and Aviad Bernstein) who pretend to be a teenage girl on Facebook so they can play a cruel prank on their shy classmate (Jonah Bobo).
Webcam sex shows, identity theft, and cyber-bullying: these are the defining issues of the Internet age according to Disconnect. The film initially does a solid job of showing how the Internet creates a false sense of intimacy, and causes us to ignore the real relationships in our lives. However, it then moves into bland, obvious set-ups that serve as warnings to the viewer. There's not an ounce of subtlety in the picture. We're not left to think about how the Internet age has affected society; we're left thinking we should probably change our Internet passwords and talk to our kids about not friending people they haven't met in real life.
After the film has finished warning the audience about things they're already aware of, Disconnect still has 70 minutes left to burn, so each story is pulled even thinner as most of the characters behave incompetently. The married couple decides to personally hunt their identity thief because the police aren't acting quickly enough. The reporter shatters professional boundaries, and develops feelings for her source. The only story with any trace of real humanity is when the bullied kid's father (Jason Bateman) goes online to find out what happened to his son. It's done in a heavy-handed fashion, but at least it has some semblance of honesty, especially due to the strong performances from Bateman and Ford who have to rely solely on facial expressions during their online chats.
Identity theft, cyber-bullying, and underage sex performers are all serious problems, but they're not the defining issues of communication in the Internet age. Couples don't have trouble talking to each other because identity theft exists. Parents don't have trouble talking to their kids because cyber-bullying exists. (The third story is just weird; it has almost no connection to the other two stories, but I guess "3" is a magic number) It's amusingly ironic that Rubin wants to cite the Internet as a reason we're disconnected from each other when his movie is disconnected from how the Internet fundamentally affects our relationships.
Rating: D-
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This is the first in a series of historical mysteries about a young widow in medieval France. It has been translated from French, but is nevertheless a beautiful book to read if you don't mind confusing narratives. I confess I skimmed over the many subplots and historical references I wasn't sure of, because the characters and places described in between were very interesting. In particular Agnes De Souarcy is a strong character partly because she is depicted in such glowing terms as a renaissance woman and partly because she remains vulnerable in spite of her ample ability and intelligence. What was fascinating also were the various social skills and hazards of France in 1304, which are so different to those we use today. The historicity of these I found convincing, and made this book a worthwhile read. I read it very quickly, and due to a cliffhanger ending will now need to read the second and perhaps third in the series.


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An interesting story showing how baseball can work itself into our daily lives, seeping into our subconscious, and briefly weaving through the lives of three strangers.
Early last fall, I discovered the work of Mark Penxa, specifically his series depicting images inspired by baseball: Stealing Signs, Dead-ball Era Baseball, Memories From My Last Life; 1927. I remember viewing the collection online, noting which of the 100 images depicted St. Louis Cardinals & Browns, and asking my wife which I should order for my office or Isaac's room. And then, of course, I completely forgot to order. Actually, I forgot about the works entirely, blissfully unaware that the images were quickly selling out: these were all 1/1's.
Fast forward to last week. I signed Isaac up for a 2008 Heroes Box at Jawdys Basement hoping for the Cardinals, or at least cards he can trade for Cardinals. What we got was so much more. After a lackluster break (just Mets colored parallels), we received two offers for "shared" hits: Dave at Fielder's Choice offered to give us the shared hit outright while Ernest at Blue Heaven offered the shared hit for a small trade. One thing leading to another, we settled on another side trade: his Cardinals for our Dodgers. More on that later… noting only that Ernest mentioned a Grover Alexander card he was sending our way.
I flew to Guadalajara on Monday, an adventure in and of itself: late connections, arriving at my gate at O'Hare while the doors were literally closing, and discovering my bags had not made it with me to Mexico. After the Monday chaos, a full workload on Tuesday, and a night of Paloma's waiting for me Tuesday evening, something triggered memories of Stealing Signs that afternoon. I grabbed my Blackberry, eventually found Mark's site, and after a few technical difficulties, inquired about a piece I wanted all those months ago: Untitled #003:
Amazingly, the piece was still available and I pestered Mark for payment information to ensure I would be the eventual owner. Unbeknownst to me, Mark had recently learned of a close friend's death and I felt horrible for my "just making sure you got my message" email. I apologized as clumsily through email as I would have in person. Mark assured me it was no trouble and actually shared a few details of his loss. It turns out the gentleman who inspired Stealing Signs passed away earlier on Tuesday: I asked about 003 a few hours later. He thought it was great that someone asked about the series on the day of his passing, asked to re-enable the web presentation, and purchased a print from the series.
Emboldened by coincidence, I asked who, if anyone, was depicted in 003. I did a quick check on baseball reference sites for the 1927 Cardinals roster but nothing stood out. I boarded my flight home none the wiser. Later that afternoon, I saw that Mark had replied back: the player was Grover Alexander. When I got home, Isaac was excited to open the box that had arrived earlier and inside, among some great 80's / 90's era Cardinals and a Lou Brock pin was a Grover Alexander card. Ernest had included a 1950 Grover Alexander Callahan card (he had to tell me, I have no clue on these things).
Coincidence? Maybe. Maybe not.
Foot note: Looking through Isaac's cards, I think the artwork is probably based on the photo from these Conlon cards. The 48 marks above his left shoulder probably correspond to Alexander's 48 strikeouts in 1927.Stealing Signs online. Its an amazing series of works and who knows, maybe one you like will be one of the few still available.


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"If you listen too much to the suffering, the anger of other people, you will be affected. You will be in touch only with suffering, and you won't have the opportunity to be in touch with other, positive elements. This will destroy your balance. Therefore, in your daily life, you have to practice so that you can be in touch with elements that do not constantly express suffering: the sky, the birds, the trees, the flowers, children- whatever is refreshing, healing, and nourishing in us and around us." -Thich Nhat Hanh, in Anger
During this new year, I have put more thought into the energy that I send out into the world on a daily basis. Every day, we all make choices about whether we are going to contribute more negativity, more aggression, into the world or whether we are going to make positive contributions and seek to ease suffering, rather than create more of it. I do believe that, in people with any semblance of compassion, it causes people to suffer when they read about injustice, hatred, and human suffering that others are experiencing. For me, blogging used to be a way to vent against such negativity in the world. Much of that has involved reading things that are painful and hurtful for me, and for many people, to read. Looking back, I can see how I was affected by this, and how I had a tendency to lose connection with the positive elements of life. I see this pretty clearly in some of my old articles.
I don't think the point is to utterly avoid all things difficult or negative. It's all about balance. Negativity is a natural part of life that we all have to deal with the best we can. Pretending that life is all about skipping through the tulips hand in hand with our brothers and sisters skews the balance in the other direction of unrealism. The point, I think, is that we have to remember to nourish ourselves so we can deal with negativity in ways that are healthy for ourselves and for our communities.
Most recently, I have learned that I need serious breaks from reading some of the blogs from which I gather my blogging material. That includes not reading blogs of all political perspectives. In the mornings, during my workouts, I have also stopped listening to my daily political podcasts. I have found that it's much better for me personally not to begin the day by listening to people debate controversial issues and discuss how messed up the world is. Sometimes, taking a day or two away from Pressing News Stories can lessen that sense that we are forever being bombarded with Things Are Getting Worse headlines.
Even though life can be difficult, I have much in my life that I can appreciate and I don't want to lose sight of that by wallowing in negativity. When I remember to nourish myself with positivity, it reminds me to enjoy life and appreciate my time here. I'm not talking about profound things. For me, I try to find nourishment in the simple everyday things: taking a hot shower after working out hard, being unconditionally loved by two furry dogs, eating chocolate while appreciating the goddess-like beauty that is Lucy Lawless, watching over-competitive adults in their 20s and 30s play dodgeball like they're back in grade school, and taking that first breath of crisp Chicago morning air at the beginning of a new day.
If you're reading this blog, chances are you care about political issues and, perhaps, get rather riled up about them. No matter what your political leanings are, I hope this post is a conscious reminder to take care of yourself. If you haven't already done so, or don't do so regularly, stop for a minute today and nourish yourself with something positive. You deserve it. You probably need it. We all do.
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